Orange County Choppers and Lawless Industries Take a Brand New Beast Down the Dragstrip to Clutch the Quarter-Mile World Record

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The Lawless Electric Drag Bike was Piloted to an ET of 7.469 seconds at 177 Miles Per Hour Breaking the Previously Held Quarter-Mile Record for a Battery-Powered Motorcycle

NEWBURGH, NY – October 7, 2010 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – Orange County Choppers, the custom motorcycle shop, announces today that it has broken the previously held quarter-mile record for a battery-powered motorcycle. The historical accomplishment was recorded at Virginia Motorsports Park located near Petersburg, VA on September 24, 2010. Legendary drag racer Larry ‘Spiderman’ McBride rode the 363 volt, 4000 amp electric bike to a 7.469, 177 miles per hour quarter-mile pass shattering the existing world record of 7.82 seconds at 168mph. The Lawless Electric Drag Bike will be featured in an episode of American Chopper tonight, Thursday, October 7 at 9PM ET/PT on TLC.

The Lawless Electric Drag bike is sponsored by AEK Packaging and Aaron Equipment Company, both companies are based in Bensenville, IL. The bike puts out over 600 horsepower, contains an electric DC Drive System, and a GE 13 inch Motor with a double Zilla controller. The team running the electric drag bike at Virginia Motorsports Park got in elapsed times of 8.02, 7.57, 7.50, and 7.46. Speeds at the quarter mile were 159, 163, 172, 174, and 177 mph. The team says that a speed of 200mph is quite possible with this bike once they manage to find more horsepower to put to the pavement.

Coincidentally, this isn’t the first time that OCC broke the record. The first attempt was on August 29th at Quaker City Raceway in Salem, Ohio, where the team registered 7.77 seconds at 165 miles per hour. And this isn’t the last record OCC and Lawless Industries are hoping to break. Next up is the current land speed record for an electric motorcycle recently set at 179 miles per hour this past September at the famous Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah.

“I’m proud to say that as a company that with the Lawless Electric Drag Bike we were able to break the same world record twice,” said Paul Teutul, Sr, Founder and CEO of Orange County Choppers. “And we look forward to what’s next with the bike.”

“The entire experience of this build, from the planning and building with the OCC crew, to breaking the World Record at the track, was incredibly positive and rewarding. I look forward to future ventures with this first class team,” said Shawn Lawless, CEO of Ohio-based Lawless Industries.

The Lawless Electric Drag Bike will be featured on American Chopper tonight, Thursday, October 7 at 9pm ET/PT on TLC. For more information and a video of the quarter mile record, please visit www.orangecountychoppers.com.

3 responses

As soon as they can put a nuclear attack submarine on the drag strip we’ll all have electric transportation with range, reliability and safety all in one package! Of course, the crew and its price tag are another thing altogether!

To Arlie Ray, from a true optimist:
You nailed it ! -still my belief is:
All the electric energy needed, our precious earth can give us, in a 100% sustainable way. This endless potential of energy can be utilized in SO many ways, yet to be done (“gigamega” scale wind/wave/solar/tide/….), yet to be seen (fusion power etc). When the demand is there, it will happen, rest assured.
I have a strong belief in the worlds greatest nation´s ability to make this major contribution, bringing us into this “brave new, petrol-free world” !
One example:
Making solar power only twice as efficient as today, and it will become profitable as h… ! (theoretical potential is much higher). USA alone, has sunny, desert areas big enough to supply the whole world with electricity made from the sun….(oh, well, get me a superconductor for the Pacific/Atlantic lines… piece of cake ….:-)
An exciting adventure of technological exploration is ahead.
Join in, think electric, we’ve just seen the beginning !